Hold Your AAPLause …
“We’re thrilled to report our best quarter ever.” Apple CEO Steve Jobs has uttered those words, or a variation on them, after most of the company’s earnings reports in recent memory. Will he speak them once again Tuesday, when Apple offers the outside world a peak at its financials? Or has the worsening economic crisis and the continued deterioration of consumer confidence stricken them from “Quarterly Earnings Statement” template in Apple PR for the time being?
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Economic Crisis Drives Notebook “Rightsizing”
At first glance, the growth of the global personal computer market during the third quarter would seem to belie any notion of a vast economic downturn. Despite the financial crisis gripping Wall Street, PC shipments increased 15 percent from the third quarter of 2007 to the third quarter of 2008, according to Gartner.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Apple Notebook Event: Jobs on Touchscreen Notebooks
In a short video, senior designer Jon Ives and other members of Apple’s industrial design team explain the new unibody enclosure. Machining enables a level of precision unheard of in the industry, says Ives. In many ways, these notebooks are more beautiful on the inside than they are on the outside.
There’s lots of emphasis at this unveiling on environmental concerns, reducing the footprint for manufacturing the new notebooks.
Apple Notebook Event: MacBook Pro Shipping Tomorrow
As rumored, the DVD slot has been moved to the left side. A rumor not true, however: Blu-ray. There’s no Blu-ray capability in the new Apple notebooks.
Ports on left side include a new mini-display port. The left side also features a battery indicator.
Other points : A solid-state drive option. The unit is less than 1-inch thick, .95 inches to be exact.
Apple Notebook Event: The Unibody Enclosure
Jobs invites Jon Ives, senior vice president for industrial design, to the stage to explain the evolution of Apple’s design and manufacturing process. Looks like the “brick” manufacturing process could be true. …
Friday, September 19, 2008
2008: Apple’s 10 Million Mac Year? (Part 2)
The malaise in the financial markets may have taken its toll on Apple’s share price, but it has done little to hamper sales of the company’s hardware. Despite a down market, Apple’s share of the laptop sector is increasing. In the U.S., it grew by 60 percent year over year, rising from 6.6 percent to 10.6 percent in the second quarter of this year.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Wow. Apple Financial Services Really Does Make Buying a Mac as Easy as Using One
Economic softness in the states is widespread, but apparently it stops short of 1 Infinite Loop. Though consumer spending on electronics is generally trending lower, it’s trending higher for Apple products.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Hewlett-Packard Announces HP EarningsSmart 2000 CashJet
Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd seems to have managed to cut the fat from the company without hitting any of its internal organs. HP reported a 10 percent increase in its fiscal third-quarter earnings Tuesday, while profits rose 14 percent to $2 billion.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
DHS: Terrorism? We Thought You Said “War on Tourism”
Overseas travel to the U.S. has plummeted in the past five years, and it may well plummet further thanks to The Department of Homeland Security’s recently revealed border policy on laptops, iPods and other electronics carried into the country by travelers.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Apple to Resellers: Stock Up on MacBooks, iPods (PS: Good Luck Selling Them After the Refresh)
If you’re considering buying a new MacBook/Pro or iPod, you might want to postpone that call to Apple Financial Services for a few months. Otherwise, you may end up with a very quickly outdated laptop and media player.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Don’t Worry, Dell, Your Laptops Are Still the World’s Ugliest
So apparently Dell’s laptops are “the world’s most secure” in the same way that SNL’s Tommy Flanagan is the world’s most eligible bachelor.
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Best use of the Beeker “meee” ever.
- Has Bell Invented the “Telegraph Killer”?
While the technology behind the Telephone is new, the design is reassuringly old-fashioned, reminiscent of a phrenologist’s horn or ear-candle in form. We found the experience far more comfortable than the one we had with the Telegraph.
- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
